Excited to share the pre-print of our #NAACL2022 paper with @jack_laviolette: "What company do words keep? Revisiting the distributional semantics of J.R. Firth & Zellig Harris" Often cited together in #NLProc, Firth &Harris present very different ideas on lexical semantics 1/11

Immigrants are leaving US workforce in mass. Remittance payments US→MX plummeting, down over -2 million from a year ago. Biggest decline by far in 30+ years - a period that includes a homebuilding depression and a 100-year financial crisis.

Nothing I’ve ever seen compares to this. It’s beyond dystopian. It feels like the end of what it means to be human.

Poet, communist, cat-lover, teacher, music critic, roadrunner, critical theorist, Marxist: though not necessarily in this order, Joshua Clover was all those things — and more.

All around the world, people are engaged in difficult labor to produce goods for American consumers. And in exchange they get pieces of paper that we can basically print as many as we want of. And yet some claim that we’re the ones getting ripped off.

Via @5thrule, this is now 4 straight days where the S&P 500 had a trading range greater than 5%. The only other times this has happened were 1987, 2008, and 2020.

MAGA are the weak men created by good times. Here come the bad times...

*TRUMP: ONE DIVIDES INTO TWO, CONTRADICTION IS IN THE ESSENCE OF OBJECTS

1: Tariffs are paused, says Bloomberg 2: Bloomberg, the news service? 1: No, some guy named Walter Bloomberg 2: What’s his source? 1: Reuters 2: The news service? 1: No, his friend Johnny Reuters

One of the biggest market stories right now has to be the admin's failure to really get meaningfully lower rates. 10-year still just a bit below 4%, even with a market crash

seems relevant

short term pain for long term pain

it is not only possible but extremely likely that the 22-year-olds running DOGE are not aware that all "digital storage" is in fact physical storage. their brains have not made the connection between the data they access and a physical hard drive located in space

It would much too easy--not to mention cruel--to spend Monday ridiculing the men who defended these tariffs. Nonetheless I think we should spend Monday doing that

Odds of a recession this year continue to surge higher

Don’t worry man, they’re futures, they haven’t happened yet

Europe working on a weekend It’s over

📣🚨 BAT SIGNAL: A law in France that would mandate a backdoor in end to end encrypted communications is set for a vote within the next day, after some start-stop skirmishes.  The French Narcotraffic law would require encrypted communications providers—like Signal—create a

THE CRYPTO LARP In that Odd Lots newsletter, I wrote about *that* Solana ad and how it helped me identify the most annoying aspect of crypto. And how we need an e/acc spin on "What will your job be on the Soviet commune?" to "What will your job be on the Martian colony?"

The US government will no longer require shell companies to disclose their owners and beneficiaries, per the US Treasury